Eduqas GCSE English Language core reading skills overview quiz quiz

Because every text in the exam is unseen

Because the texts are pre-released to schools well before the day of the exam

Because there is no reading section in the exam papers at all for this subject

Because students get to choose their own texts to write about on the day

Lifting information that the text states outright, word for word, with no thinking required

Concluding what a text implies but does not state, supported by detail

Naming a technique the writer has used, such as a metaphor or a piece of personification

Comparing two different texts to find the ideas and viewpoints they share or disagree on

A technique label such as the word metaphor

A comparison drawn with a second text

The textual detail that triggered it

A long quotation copied straight from the text

The classroom was a zoo

The city never sleeps

A sea of faces

As quiet as a library

Because it is required for the higher bands, but the marks come from analysing effect

Because using any subject terminology is banned and will lose you marks in the exam

Because simply naming a technique on its own is enough to score the full set of marks

Because AO2 completely ignores terminology and rewards only your personal response

There is no difference between them, and the two words mean exactly the same thing

Structure is a whole-text choice about order and shape; language is a word-level choice

Structure is a choice about spelling and punctuation; language is a choice about the plot

Structure is only ever about how a text ends, and nothing else about the whole text

A text that simply stops without any kind of ending or resolution at all

A text that has a very large number of different characters in its story

A text that ends by returning to its opening image or idea

A text that is written all the way through in the present tense rather than the past

They are exactly the same thing, and the two terms can be used interchangeably in an answer

Tone is a choice about the structure of the text, while mood is a choice about its spelling and grammar

Tone is the feeling the reader gets from a text; mood is the writer's own attitude to the subject

Tone is the writer's attitude to the subject; mood is the atmosphere the text creates in the reader

The level of formality and the kind of language used

A list of all the characters who appear in the text

The plot of a text, meaning the events in the order they happen

A particular type of extended metaphor used across a whole text

It simply looks neater on the page and makes the whole answer easier for the examiner to read

It keeps the focus on the precise detail, integrates into your sentence, and leaves room to analyse the effect

It uses up fewer of the available marks, so you can save those marks for later questions instead

It avoids the need for any analysis at all, because a long quotation simply explains the writer's effect by itself

Copying it out onto its own separate line, set apart from the rest of your answer

Translating it into simpler, more modern words before you write it down in your answer

Integrating it into the grammar of your own sentence so it reads fluently

Putting it in a footnote at the bottom of the page, away from your main argument

AO1

AO3

AO5

AO2